Department of Defense appropriations for 1980: hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, first session, Parts 1-2

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Page 279 - Law 763 provides that the compensation of such employees shall be fixed and adjusted from time to time as nearly as is consistent with the public interest in accordance with prevailing rates. A general survey of Government and industrial employees...
Page 6 - Operations from May 1944 until August 1945, participating in the Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, and Ardennes Campaigns. He was released from active duty on 5 January 1946. On 3 November 1947, General Greenlief rejoined the Nebraska National Guard as commanding officer, Company G, 134th Infantry. He subsequently served as S-3 of the 134th Infantry Regiment, acting assistant adjutant general of Nebraska, G-4 of the 34th Infantry Division and division chief of staff.
Page 6 - Greenlief was born in Hastings, Nebraska on 27 July 1921. He completed high school there and enrolled in the University of Nebraska in 1939 to study business administration. He enlisted in Company G, 134th Infantry, Nebraska National Guard in Hastings on 5 July 1940, and was ordered to active duty with his unit on 23 December 1940 as a corporal. At the time of his entrance to Infantry Officer Candidate School in May 1942, he was Acting First Sergeant of the same Company.
Page 511 - It is the general policy of the administration that the Federal Government will not start or carry on any commercial activity to provide a service or product for its own use if such product or service can be procured from private enterprise through ordinary business channels.
Page 75 - In and employees of the Department of the Army or the Department of the Air Force...
Page 602 - State will, to the extent permitted by its law, establish and maintain an effective and comprehensive occupational safety and health program applicable to all employees of public agencies of the State and its political subdivisions, which program is as effective as the standards contained in an approved plan...
Page 306 - Under such regulations as he may prescribe, the Administrator is authorized in his discretion to transfer, without cost (except for costs of care and handling), any personal property under the control of any executive agency which has been determined to be surplus property to the State agency in each State designated under State law as the agency responsible for the fair and equitable distribution, through donation, of all property transferred in accordance with the provisions of paragraphs (2) and...
Page 205 - Declares that women should have full freedom of personal choice concerning the completion or termination of their pregnancies and that artificial or induced termination of pregnancy, therefore, should not be restricted by law, except that it be performed under the direction and control of a properly licensed physician.
Page 143 - Due to consolidation of air activities at USN locations and the need to provide hands-on training to surface reservists, the readiness and stability of the Naval Reserve program is closely related to a responsive and economical peacetime airlift.
Page 208 - None of the funds provided for in this Act shall be used to perform abortions except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term ; or except for such medical procedures necessary for the victims of rape or incest, when such rape or incest has been reported promptly to a law enforcement agency or public health service...

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